maybe
it was the employee dropping off the tapes... or the cleaners or the office dog. I hope they have a stronger case than that.
A former IT executive for a Canadian marketing firm has been accused of taking a computer backup tape containing personal information of 3.2 million customers that could net as much as $10m on the black market, according to court records. Nick Belmonte, who earned $150,000 as vice president of IT for Vancouver-based C-W …
um...why would he want to steal the actual tape which someone would notice is missing(duh), and so get found out, and have to go into hiding forever after an international arrest warrant is issued, when he could have just make a copy of it and no one would have known??????? something smells fishy here....
paris cause....that fishy smell again......
C-W Agencies has not provided direct marketing in Canada or the USA for several years now. Most of the clients in the database are European.
C-W Agencies ran afoul of U.S. law in 1998. The firm pleaded guilty to criminal charges, was fined $500,000 (US), and was ordered to "cease all marketing of lottery products to United States residents."
B.C. consumer protection legislation, proclaimed in August 2001, made it illegal to resell lottery tickets without authorization or special licensing. And no individuals or companies have been licensed.
Other than their Senior Management troubles, C-W Agencies/European Lottery Guild/Continental Mail Processing BV run a legitimate enterprise.